Classic car Tag

Day 3 - Tasmania
Last night I slept on the Spirit of Tasmania as we crossed Bass Straight and headed over to Tasmania. The ferry started rocking as soon as we left Port Phillip Bay and not long after, the waves started crashing into the bow...

Hello again!!! Only 1 more sleep to go!
Last prep day is almost over, and the final pack up, thorough check and highway test is done. With The Rattler well secured it was time for a final road test. The Landcruiser purred with its new telemetry...

Hello everyone!! Only 2 more sleeps now!
The Rattler needed a bit of a polish to look it's best before the dirt and mud covers it. I am working away feverishly trying to complete 5 days’ work in 2!!! I have no idea why this always...

5 days to go!
Updating all the decals on the vehicles for each journey is a big job! Today I had a little helper tag along with her crew member mummy, and we dropped the last 2 vehicles off at Graffiti Stickers for the final touches...

Hello everyone! Only 6 days to go now.
Next Tuesday, I leave home with my lovely Rattler on the back of the trailer and start the journey to Tasmania. I'm taking one crew member with me for the drive to Tassie. Six more crew will fly...

Today was repair day on the Rattler to dress up the mudguards that I flared with a pipe wrench when in deep sand in the Simpson Desert on The Desert Rattler Run. Using a pipe wrench to flare the guards was quite a drastic thing...

Only 13 days to go before lift off!!
I’m into the night shift now and thinking through just what is needed for deep water and boggy river crossings. You know, the type where crocodiles lurk in wait! I don't want to be stuck in the water...

What a day!!!
I took the Fuso 4wd to Ray at The Tyre Professionals Nerang and the huge Michelin single tyres for the rear were fitted. Frank had the fronts put to the back and two new Michelins donated by BF Goodrich were fitted to the...

Just clocked on to my night time job as a screen printer!
I'm printing up T-shirts for the crew. This is when I realise just how diversified my crew makeup is. Some ‘string beans’ and some that have beaten anorexia.
I'm going to screen up some shirts...

The trailer needed a full rebuild following The Desert Rattler Run.
New springs, new electric brakes and wiring, and a complete sand down and repaint. Tool box repaired, winch serviced and tested.
All that is needed now are the decals which I'm off to do today.
Also been...

Today, being Sunday, is my family day, and a day of reflection. But when there is so much to prepare priorities shift.
On the Rattler today it was time to seal, as best I could, the floor area around the steering column, clutch and brake pedals...

The canopy arrives!!!!
Crew member Mark from Wicked Fabrications that makes all things aluminium and stainless steel for my cars and of course for boats at the Coomera Marina Precinct arrived at my workshop at afternoon smoko with a canopy for the Rattler that his mate...

It's now only about 2 weeks until I leave home and set off for Tasmania with the Rattler. So I thought it was about time I updated everyone on all the preparations for the next adventure.
Look at the Fuso - isn't she looking great! She...

Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade has revealed his next adventure - the Great Rattler Run 2016, the followup to the 2015 Desert Rattler Run. This time Rod and his team will venture from the furthest point south in Australia to the furthest point north.
The Great Rattler Run will start...

The Vintage Adventurer crew departed Nizhny Novgorod drove 40k to the N-Ring race track. The crews had to do two laps then on the third lap, drive out to time keeper. On the final lap three corners from the finish and on a right hander,...